JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)
Femme et oiseaux dans la nuit, 1944
Oil on canvas (unstretched)
57.8 x 46.4 cm (22 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.)
Provenance
- The Artist, 1944
- Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
- Acquavella Galleries, New York
- Doreen "Drue" Mary Heinz
- Drue Heinz Trust, Pittsburgh
- Museum of Modern Art, New York (by bequest from the above; inventory number MoMA A399.2018)
Exhibitions
- New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Collected by Yale Alumni, May–June 1960, no. 117, titled Femmes, oiseau, et serpent
- New York, Acquavella Galleries, Joan Miró, October–November 1972, no. 47, ill. in color, titled Women, Bird and Serpent in front of the Sun
Literature
- A. Cirici-Pellicer, Miró y la imaginación, Barcelona, Ediciones Omega, 1949, no. 53, ill., titled La mujer y el pajaro en la noche
- J. Dupin, Joan Miró: Leben und Werk, Cologne, Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1961,
no. 621, p. 531, ill.
- J. Dupin and A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue Raisonné Paintings III, 1942–1955, vol. III, Paris, Successió Miró, 2001, no. 714, p. 52, ill.